Baillieston railway station is located in Caledonia Road on the southern boundary of the

Baillieston Baillieston ( sco, Bailiestoun) is a suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. It is about east of the city centre. It also gives its name to Ward 20 of Glasgow City Council and forms part of the Glasgow East constituency of the UK Parliament. Geograph ...

area of

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, Scotland, with the

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area on the other side of the tracks. It is on the

Whifflet Line The Whifflet Line is one of the lines within the Strathclyde suburban rail network in Scotland. History The line was built between 1863 and 1865 as the Rutherglen and Coatbridge Railway, part of the Caledonian Railway. It opened to goods tr ...

(a branch of the more extensive

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), east of

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. Train services are provided by

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. The line was built in the period 1864-1866 by the

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and was called the Rutherglen to Coatbridge branch. The new station opened by

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on 4 October 1993 under the financial management of the

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History

The original station, which was situated 1 km east of the present, was opened by the

in January 1866 when passenger traffic started. The line became part of the

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during the

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of 1923. The line then passed on to the

Scottish Region of British Railways The Scottish Region (ScR) was one of the six regions created on British Railways (BR) and consisted of ex-London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) and ex-London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) lines in Scotland. It existed from the creation o ...

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in 1948. The old station closed to passenger traffic in 1964.

Services

A half-hourly service operates between Glasgow Central (Low Level) and stations, on Mondays to Saturdays. Services run to/from , and one train per hour each way extends to/from . Sunday services formerly only ran for the month prior to Christmas and were extended to , but since the December 2014 timetable change and the start of EMU operation now run hourly each way all day throughout the year (to and Motherwell). Several freight trains also pass the halt every day.

References

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Station on navigable O.S. map

External links

Railway stations in Glasgow SPT railway stations Railway stations served by ScotRail Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1866 Railway stations in Great Britain closed in 1964 Railway stations in Great Britain opened in 1993 Beeching closures in Scotland Former Caledonian Railway stations 1866 establishments in Scotland Baillieston {{Glasgow-railstation-stub